FILE – This Thursday, May 12, 2016, file photo, shows signage outside a restroom at 21c Museum Hotel in Durham, N.C. North Carolina is in a legal battle over a state law that requires transgender people to use the public restroom matching the sex on their birth certificate. Some small business owners already working to make their companies more welcoming to LGBT employees say the massacre at a gay dance club in Orlando, Fla., gives them an impetus to make more changes. In this photo, the Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant bathroom sign was designed by artist Peregrine Honig. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

Fifty-three percent of the Americans surveyed oppose laws requiring transgender people to use bathrooms that match their gender at birth instead of their gender identity, according the poll, conducted by the nonpartisan group the Public Religion Research Institute.

Thirty-nine percent were in favor of such laws, while nearly one in ten of the 2,031 adults surveyed in February by telephone had no opinion, reports Reuters.

The issue breaks down along party lines, with most Democrats and independents opposing the laws and most Republicans favoring them.

Sixty-five percent of Democrats and 57 percent of independents voiced opposition to the anti-transgender laws, while 59 percent of Republicans support them, and thirty-six percent of Republicans opposing them.

“This is a case where it really is Republicans kind of pulling away and being more of an outlier to the rest of the country,” said Robert P. Jones, chief executive of the Washington-based group.

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